Raindrop prelude biography

The Prelude Op. 28, No. 15, by Frédéric Chopin is known as the "Raindrop" prelude. It is one of the 24 Chopin preludes. This is the longest of the preludes. It lasts between five and seven minutes. The prelude is famous for its repeating A-flat. This note appears throughout the piece. It sounds like raindrops to many listeners.^[1] It is known for it's repetitive raindrop motif.

Composition

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Some of the Preludes were written during Chopin and George Sand's stay at a monastery in Valldemossa, Majorca in 1838. ^[2] In her Histoire de ma vie, Sand told how one evening she and her son Maurice, returning from Palma, Majorca, in a terrible rainstorm, found a frantic Chopin who cried, "Ah! I knew well that you were dead." While playing his piano he had a dream:

"He saw himself drowned in a lake. Heavy drops of icy water fell in a regular rhythm on his breast, and when I made him listen to the sound of the drops of water indeed falling in rhythm on the roof, he denied having heard it. He was even angry that I should interpret this in terms of imitative sounds. He protested with all his might – and he was right to – against the childishness of such aural imitations. His genius was filled with the mysterious soun

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Abstract

Music by the so-called "poet of the piano," Frédéric Chopin, has provided irresistible raw material for many poets of the literary kind. Drawn by both the evocative music and the composer's compelling biography, well over one hundred poets writing in English have responded with an abundance of sonnets, quatrains, blank verse, and free verse, and at least a dozen of these poems focus on Prelude in D-flat major, Op. 28, No. 15, the "Raindrop" Prelude. The prominence of the "Raindrop" Prelude in poetry can be attributed in part to its popularity in the concert hall and on recordings, but it is clear that poets have also been attracted by the pictorial element suggested by the Prelude's nickname. In addition, the poems prove the fascination of the music's biographical context: the Prelude may have been composed during Chopin's stay on the Spanish island of Majorca with novelist Aurore Dudevant, better known as George Sand. The varied images, narratives, and techniques in these poems attest to the very personal nature of the listening experience, and a careful reading of this poetry offers fresh perspectives on the "Raindrop" Prelude's genesis, meanings, and reception history.

Original Citation

Kreiling, J. L. (2011). Music Quenched In Blood: What Poets Hear In Chopin

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